Thank you Gary for remembering the eight nurses who are among the over 58,000 Americans whose names are carved on The Wall. Because of them and their medical colleagues including doctors, techs, corpsmen, and the female volunteers affectionately known as "Donut Dollies", thousands of us who fell, were able to rise up again and come home.
I will add one more woman to this list - fearless in the face of the enemy and any authority - and that is photojournalist Dickey Chappelle. She was originally sent to cover the nurses during WWII, but talked her way to the front lines!
She had the Battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa under her belt before she went to Viet Nam. She was killed by a booby trap while on a patrol with "her Marines".
Thank you Gary for remembering the eight nurses who are among the over 58,000 Americans whose names are carved on The Wall. Because of them and their medical colleagues including doctors, techs, corpsmen, and the female volunteers affectionately known as "Donut Dollies", thousands of us who fell, were able to rise up again and come home.
I will add one more woman to this list - fearless in the face of the enemy and any authority - and that is photojournalist Dickey Chappelle. She was originally sent to cover the nurses during WWII, but talked her way to the front lines!
She had the Battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa under her belt before she went to Viet Nam. She was killed by a booby trap while on a patrol with "her Marines".
Amen!!